Anyone else quitting alcohol??

[martin thomas]

I've decided to quit going to the devils kitchen. After getting mullered christmas eve i havn't touched a drop since and don't plan on doing so. Anyone else quitting?
ps i'm 33 and have been an avid once a week drunken bum since the age of 17.

Martin

[jollygreen]

Hell no.

I got 4 more bottles of whisky at Christmas

[172ff]

Aye, will do the month of Jan like last year. Might do 6 months this time. See how I feel at the end of that if I want to drink again.

[matchmaker]

After New Year. After calculating that in one night (Christmas Eve) I drank 5 times the recommended daily maximum

[bull996]

It will be 6 years in Jan since I last had a drink....

[mybrainhurts]

Used to drink five or six pints a night whilst driving round the rural pubs in the old days.

Always used to feel crap in the mornings and realised how much better I felt after that time consuming thing called marriage stopped me indulging.

[nonplussed]

Not planning to. I never get hammered anymore (age and 2 very young children sees to that...) but I'd not want to go without my couple of glasses of wine a day, even though it'd probably do me good.

[Rawwr]

I quit drinking about 2 years ago and really don't miss it at all. Being sober on a night out is really quite a refreshing experience

[jollygreen]

mybrainhurts said:

Used to drink five or six pints a night whilst driving round the rural pubs in the old days.

[sebo]

bull996 said:

It will be 6 years in Jan since I last had a drink....

Did your drinking become a problem ? (No need to answer, bit of a personal question really)

[mybrainhurts]

jollygreen said:

mybrainhurts said:

Used to drink five or six pints a night whilst driving round the rural pubs in the old days.

What's up..? Everybody did...

[J500ANT]

I never really saw the attraction in drinking - im one of those who falls asleep after a drink, I can do that anyway! Nowadays my tipple is Magners, as I love the taste - but its maybe 2 pints a month, max!

[Graham]

After a particular heavy bender in Munich on the plane on the way back I decided to give up coffee and alcohol for a month... the alcohol was no problem and i only started about 2 months later after I started getting fed up with orange juice, and mates raking the pee when I ordered a shandy...

Coffee however was a different matter, after 2 weeks I thought I was fine, but I got marched into the directors office,and presented with a strong cup of filter coffee and told to drink it or I was fired apparently I was a little grouchy, and everyone was terrified to go in my office... I thought it had been quiet

G

[bigandclever]

matchmaker said:

After New Year. After calculating that in one night (Christmas Eve) I drank 5 times the recommended daily maximum

Eh? So you had (the equivalent of) 2 bottles of wine? Rock AND roll

[jollygreen]

mybrainhurts said:

jollygreen said:

mybrainhurts said:

Used to drink five or six pints a night whilst driving round the rural pubs in the old days.

What's up..? Everybody did...

how long ago was that?

[Penny-lope]

Drink...no

Junk food...yes

[Romanymagic]

jollygreen said:

mybrainhurts said:

jollygreen said:

mybrainhurts said:

Used to drink five or six pints a night whilst driving round the rural pubs in the old days.

What's up..? Everybody did...

how long ago was that?

Before wearing seat belts in the front of the car were compulsory is my guess.

[Taita]

Penny-lope said:

Drink...no

Junk food...yes

Might cut down on drink a bit though...

[L4URA]

No alcohol for January. Did this a couple of years ago just to prove to myself I could so will do so again. Managaed January and September so I feel 2 dry months a year is good enough for me!

[anonymous-user]

I quite drinking for a month earlier this year while training for cycling and I really did enjoy waking up on saturdays and sundays at 8AM feeling fit as a flea.

I was going to do try and do two months after New Years Eve but over christmas i've picked up a sinus infection which I have today been prescribed antibiotics for so will be tee total from now...didn't even get to have one big final piss up!

I love a drink, but you get so much more out of your weekends when you don't drink.